Killing Campaigns: The Origins and Dynamics of Mass Violence in Africa …level was not correlated to electoral violence; that incumbents committed the majority of electoral violence; and that the dynamics of prevote violence differed from postvote violence. Those findings were published…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …series of ongoing life struggles. Non-gang violence during this period rose in equal measure to the decline in gang violence, leaving the overall number of violent crimes in the targeted…
Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …violence. While sexual violence was used as punishment or as extortion, it mainly functioned as a display of colonial power. I, therefore, argue sexual violence is not a direct result…
“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts …the Cure Violence model. Programs like Save Our Streets—that’s where I would put all my investments. I wanted to ask you about the state of Cure Violence research. It is…
“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …the contrary, we couldn’t see any end to the increase in violence, both in New York and nationally. The rise in violence, and homicides, in particular, had been very steep….
The Chinese Must Go: The Violent Birth of American Border Control …more recognized forms of political power. This racial violence terrorized local populations, shaped local politics, and at times, advanced a national agenda. In the mid-nineteenth century, this political violence, and…
Controlling Violence in Wartime? Power Centralization and Economization of Republican Violence in the Spanish Civil War …decide, and are able to control, minimize, or maximize violence; and the impact of political discourses and competition among different actors for the use of violence in modern war violence….
White Terror: Paramilitary Violence in Interwar Central Europe …this field and to test the wider methodological implications of my hypothesis for our understanding of political violence more generally. I undertook several extended trips to various Central European archives…
Targeting Institutional Risk Factors to Reduce Patient Violence …or high) strongly predicted units’ violence rates one year later (r= .78). Second, specific factors that strongly predicted future violence included a unit’s historical rates of violence; limited violence-relevant interventions;…